Fannjng-mill



(No Modei.)

- C. S. BBEBE.

` u EANNING MILL.

N0' 2801897- Patented July 10, 1883.

UNITED STATES CHARLES S. BEEBE, OF RACINE, VISCONSIN.

FANNlNG-MILL SPECJIFICATION forming To @ZZ whom iz? may concern.'

Be it known that I, CHARLES SETH Banen,-

of Racine, in the county of Racine, and in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fanning-Mills; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to tanning-mills; and it consistsv in certain improved mechanism wherewith the shoe that carries the screen is supported and shaken, as will be fully described hereinafter.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a machine embodying my invention with a part of the top of it broken away. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Y

The main object of my invention is to provide in. one machine mechanism for hanging the shoe, so that it can be adjusted to shake bodily from side to side or to oscillate on an arc of a circle.. The former is styled in the trade the body7 shake, and the latter the iiirt7 shake. Hence in this application I show and describe the devices for producing vboth the body and flirt shake, because all my machines are` made to embody both; but I only claim the construction necessary for the body shake at the present time, and reserve the mechanism for producing the flirt shake as the subject of a future application.

A is the casing of a tanning-mill, and A the shoe. I provide the shoe on each side with lugs J and f to receive hangers B and K, and on one side of the shoe, in addition to the lugs J f, I provide the shoe with an elbowplate, C, and connect it by a staple, a, with thebell-crank lever D, which is swiveled in lng e, attached to the'frame.

The fan-wheel is revolved by any convenient means and is connected tothe lever D by a rod, E. A bar, G, is fastened to the shoe A at its front and midway between its sides, and the front end of this bar projects forward and up against the top of the casing A andinto a staple, H, whichV is provided with a groove, I, and the ends oi' which staples are screwthreaded and project up through the top of the casing to receive set-nuts F F. To give the of the casing and back again, and in these retop and sides of the frame of the mill.

part of Letters Patent No. 280,897, dated July 1o, 1883.

Application filed December 7, 1881. (No model.)

shoe the body shake, set-nuts F are loosened to allow the staple H to drop down away from the top of the casing, as shown in Fig. 1. This leaves bar G free to slide from one end to the other of the staple H. The hangers B are then caught over lugs J, and hangers K in lugs f. The shoe will nowbe supported evenly on each side of the elbow-plate C, and, as it is connected with the fan-Wheel crank by elbowlever D and rod E, each revolution of the crank will throw the shoe from one side. tothe other 6o ciprocations the front and rear of the shoe will both travel together at right angles to the length of the casing. Now, to change the shake from body to ilirt, the hangers B are withdrawn from the lugs J, so as to let the weight of the body of the shoe rest entirely upon the hangers K and bar G, and the staple H is tightened Vup against the casing, as shown in Fig. 2, so as to oonline the end of bar G in groove I, which groove, while it is suiliciently large to permit the bar to oscillate in it, will hold it against lateral play. Therefore, if the fan-wheel be turned it will cause the rear of the shoe to vibrate in the are of a circle of which a vertical line drawn through the groove 7 5 I of the staple H is the center, and thus will be produced the flirt shake.

The hangers B, I have shown swiveled in inclined bearings in the lugs c d, attached to the The hangers K are suspended from lugs b, secured to the rear end of the frame.

`What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, in a tanning-mill, ofthe 85 casing, screen-shoe, independent hangers B and K, lugs c, J, d, b, and f, plate C, bellcrank lever D, and crank-rod E, substantially as set forth. i,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 4th day oi' November, 1881.

CHARLES SETH BEEBE.

Witnesses S. S. S'roor, 4 BYRON B. BLAKE. 

